[development] phpgacl

[Roman Chyla]

Thank you, Tao and Richard,
I have seen the ACL module and it is not a good match for this. What
you can do is only user<->object permission. That is too simple.

  roman


On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Richard Burford
<rich at freestylesystems.co.uk> wrote:
> You might find the ACL module documentation [1] helpful.
>
>  [1]
> http://api.freestylesystems.co.uk/api/file/contributions/acl/acl.module/5
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>  psynaptic
>  http://freestylesystems.co.uk
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>  On 8 May 2008, at 18:16, Tao Starbow wrote:
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> > You might check out the acl.module
> >
> > cheers,
> > -tao
> >
> > Roman Chyla wrote:
> >
> > > Ken,
> > > Thank you for the reply. The phpgacl was the best I was able to find.
> > > If anyone knows about any library that does the similar thing, please
> > > let me know. I know Joomla! is using phpgacl and it was ported to
> > > python recently too (spiff.debain.org) -- it may look stall, but the
> > > documentation is very complete and it does provide good services.
> > >
> > > I am behind in understanding Drupal6 but I think I know quite well D5
> > > and it's access control. And I found it not flexible enough, so if
> > > things hasn't changed for D6 I would have troubles setting fine
> > > grained access permission for individuals and/or groups on a
> > > item-level and/or collection basis.
> > > Besides in this project, data and documents are stored in an external
> > > system and Drupal should be used to provide access control interface
> > > and act as an arbiter for every fulltext request. So there isn't any
> > > notion of nodes here. The external system is a digital library, made
> > > of many journals, each journal has its own subscribers and the
> > > editorial board should manage its own subscribers -- that's why I
> > > needed groups. I did not install OG yet, but comparing it with
> > > CivicCRM, it seems to me there cannot be subgroups inside of the OG
> > > groups. We need to isolate journals but still need to have groups
> > > inside their space (inside their groups). CivicCRM looks good though.
> > >
> > > Please let me know if there is anything I didn't see. Any experience
> > > to share? Thanks
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > >  roman
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Ken Rickard <agentrickard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Roman-
> > > >
> > > > The phpgacl project appears to be stagnant.  No new releases since
> 2006.
> > > > SVN untouched for the past 20 months.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone still support the project?
> > > >
> > > > The only activity on the mailing list these days seems to be spam.
> > > >
> > > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=phpgacl-devel
> > > >
> > > > Not sure why anyone would invest time into such an integration.
> > > >
> > > > As for Drupal, start with Organic Groups, the mother of all access
> control
> > > > modules.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Ken Rickard
> > > > agentrickard at gmail.com
> > > > http://ken.therickards.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Roman Chyla <roman.chyla at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am looking into the phpgacl and after searching mailing lists, and
> > > > > drupal.org (via google, the search form seems not to be there)
> > > > > But found very little. eg:
> > > > > http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2004-03/msg00566.html
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there any reason why I should not think of phpgacl and Drupal
> > > > > together? (I am wondering why nobody has considered phpgacl for
> > > > > Drupal)
> > > > >
> > > > > Could you recommend me some group management modules in Drupal? Or
> any
> > > > > hints, anything that relates to permission control & gacl?
> > > > > I am thinking about including phpgacl into Drupal.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you very much,
> > > > >
> > > > > roman
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